Thoraldby Farm in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Thoraldby Farm, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Langbaurgh

• Acklam
• Airy [Holme]
• Aislaby
• Arnodestorp
• Baldebi
• Barnaby
• Barwick
• Battersby
• Bergolbi
• Berguluesbi
• Blaten [Carr]
• Borrowby
• Breck
• Brotton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Thoraldby Farm is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bý, a farmstead or village. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a farmstead’.

Names of this type are a fingerprint of Scandinavian settlement: they cluster across the old Danelaw, where Norse-speaking settlers renamed or founded villages from the late 9th century onward.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Thoraldby Farm.

Listed Buildings Near Thoraldby Farm

Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Thoraldby Farm. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Skutterskelfe Hall, the Butler’s Pantry, Rosedene and Briardene - 1.29 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Skutterskelfe Hall - 1.0 km W
• Rudby - 2.2 km SW
• Bergolbi - 3.0 km N
• Berguluesbi - 3.0 km N
• Seamer - 3.0 km N
• Stokesley - 3.2 km E